SECUNDERABAD: The wait seems to get longer by the day. Annoyed by the Local Military Authority (LMA) dragging its feet on reopening the entire public roads as ordered by the ministry of defence (MoD), citizens of Secunderabad Cantonment at the moment are planning to hit the street. To begin with, a protest will be held sooner than Telangana Andhra Sub-Area (TASA) headquarters at Bolarum soon.
The citizens are additional exasperated by a new rule of the military government insisting on helmets for pillion riders additionally. Till now, the warriors had been insisting on ‘helmet will have to’ for bike riders best. Signboards making helmets obligatory for pillion riders have sprung up. “It seems as though the government are out to bother us with one clause or the opposite. They don't seem to be even sparing the morning walkers. This isn't some jungle raj,” an indignant resident complained.
The resident welfare associations (RWAs) approached SCB chief government officer SVR Chandra Sekhar and advised him to stay the entire 25 civilian roads open. “But, the LMA continues to carry directly to 14 roads by making them ‘no-go’ zones. The SCB government are helpless as they haven’t received any reply from LMA until now,” mentioned a senior member of RWA, Yapral. “We will level a protest at TASA headquarters to demand that the government stay the 14 roads additionally open for the convenience of lakhs of commuters,” Okay Subhashini, a instrument worker, instructed TOI.
The 14 inner roads are: Hakimpet-Cantonment Garden Road, Cantonment Garden, Barr Road, Golf Course-Lakdawala Road, Batticaloa Circle-Ammuguda Road, TASA Circle-Aurangabad Railway Line Road, Balaklava Road-Batticalova Link Road, FEL Circle-Rajiv Rahadari Road, FEL Circle-Lal Bazar Road, RA Lines Road-Wesley Church Road, Empress Road, RA Lines Road, Service Road beneath RK Puram and Shivalayam Road.
In the MoD’s orders issued on May 21, best four out of 62 Cantonments had been exempted from opening the roads to civilians. But, no such exemption was once prolonged to Secunderabad Cantonment. “We nonetheless do not understand as to why the LMA is dilly-dallying on opening the 14 roads regardless of the MoD’s transparent instructions to stay the entire 25 roads open,” a member of RWA, Lal Bazar, sought to know. The four Cantonments that have been given the relief had been Badami Bhag Cantonment in Srinagar, Jammu Cantonment, Delhi Cantonment and Cannanore (Kannur) Cantonment.
On top of this, the citizens are also disenchanted by the boundaries and highway blocks which have no longer been got rid of by LMA. “Some of the interior roads are very slim (30feet width). By putting in the iron barricades in the midst of the road, the width shrinks additional,” D Shankar, a normal commuter of Yapral, instructed TOI.
Another order of the MoD to LMA to take help of the local traffic police to keep an eye on traffic has additionally no longer been implemented. “The military government do not way us. In some areas, traffic signals do not function,” a senior traffic cop mentioned.
The citizens are additional exasperated by a new rule of the military government insisting on helmets for pillion riders additionally. Till now, the warriors had been insisting on ‘helmet will have to’ for bike riders best. Signboards making helmets obligatory for pillion riders have sprung up. “It seems as though the government are out to bother us with one clause or the opposite. They don't seem to be even sparing the morning walkers. This isn't some jungle raj,” an indignant resident complained.
The resident welfare associations (RWAs) approached SCB chief government officer SVR Chandra Sekhar and advised him to stay the entire 25 civilian roads open. “But, the LMA continues to carry directly to 14 roads by making them ‘no-go’ zones. The SCB government are helpless as they haven’t received any reply from LMA until now,” mentioned a senior member of RWA, Yapral. “We will level a protest at TASA headquarters to demand that the government stay the 14 roads additionally open for the convenience of lakhs of commuters,” Okay Subhashini, a instrument worker, instructed TOI.
The 14 inner roads are: Hakimpet-Cantonment Garden Road, Cantonment Garden, Barr Road, Golf Course-Lakdawala Road, Batticaloa Circle-Ammuguda Road, TASA Circle-Aurangabad Railway Line Road, Balaklava Road-Batticalova Link Road, FEL Circle-Rajiv Rahadari Road, FEL Circle-Lal Bazar Road, RA Lines Road-Wesley Church Road, Empress Road, RA Lines Road, Service Road beneath RK Puram and Shivalayam Road.
In the MoD’s orders issued on May 21, best four out of 62 Cantonments had been exempted from opening the roads to civilians. But, no such exemption was once prolonged to Secunderabad Cantonment. “We nonetheless do not understand as to why the LMA is dilly-dallying on opening the 14 roads regardless of the MoD’s transparent instructions to stay the entire 25 roads open,” a member of RWA, Lal Bazar, sought to know. The four Cantonments that have been given the relief had been Badami Bhag Cantonment in Srinagar, Jammu Cantonment, Delhi Cantonment and Cannanore (Kannur) Cantonment.
On top of this, the citizens are also disenchanted by the boundaries and highway blocks which have no longer been got rid of by LMA. “Some of the interior roads are very slim (30feet width). By putting in the iron barricades in the midst of the road, the width shrinks additional,” D Shankar, a normal commuter of Yapral, instructed TOI.
Another order of the MoD to LMA to take help of the local traffic police to keep an eye on traffic has additionally no longer been implemented. “The military government do not way us. In some areas, traffic signals do not function,” a senior traffic cop mentioned.
Cantt residents accuses LMA of 'jungle raaj'
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